September 2016

Penang may be a tropical island, but it’s not exactly a beachy paradise. Instead, tourism here revolves around Georgetown. The capital is designated a UNESCO World Heritage City, a former stronghold of the colonial spice trade where history and diverse cultural influences meld today…

Road tripping the Gibb River Road, I found the Australia I’d always imagined — and a side of the Outback I never knew existed. This blog has seen no end to the love I developed for Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region while living at…

Backpacking suggests a certain kind of independence, a lifestyle that’s all one-way tickets and wide-open spaces and solitary ephiphanies in paradisal places. Sometimes, backpacking lives up to exactly that kind of life-changing ideal — but just as often, like any other mode of travel,…

September 12, 2016

Welcome to Hummingbird Away!

Hola! I'm Katie, a freelance writer and virtual assistant from North Carolina (kind of). After moving around the States as a kid, I grew up and started moving around the world instead. These days, I'm dreamin', schemin' and empanada-eatin' from my new home base on the edge of Chile's Patagonia. Check out more of my story here!